... rant Minute, a book of verse by Larry Ostler, otherwise known as the Inspired Stable-Boy, who, suddenly nauseated by flat-racing at Newmarket, Epsom and Limerick Junction, had taken to cocaine, steeplechasing, poetry, and Plumpton. A sad story, my masters ...

... opti mism of the Personal Column. For optimism is the essence of that column, just as it is the living in lie uemiiu tnc human race. While the inside of the paper gives the results of our actions, the personal column is the happy home of our dreams for the ...

... YDUH FAMILY TREE L. G. Pine TRACING a family pedigree is like running an obstacle race; those who negotiate the high jump may well fall at the water jump or vice versa. There are few makers of their own pedigrees who stay the whole field and trace their ...

... directly concerned with animals should have some knowledge of anatomy and how to deal with beasts suffering as the result of accidents or the sudden afflictions to which they are all liable. Thinking one knows what is wrong or what to do can so often cause ...

... sparing neither pains nor expense to make the occasion memorable with a ceaseless round of banquets, dances, masques and horse races. The Florentines had never ceased talking of that royal visit and the gaiety it brought to the city. Now they were en fite ...

... he wished to take. Fatalistically, the rickshaw-puller set off to where fate and the white man, mad, as were the rest of his race, might take him. At the road junction, Henry paid off the rickshaw, and began slowly to walk down under the trees. When he ...

... knowing me personally, they asked me to pay the driver in cash. I had it all ready for him. And he didn't turn up? He had an accident on the journey. The car was smashed up, and the driver's in hospital. Dear, dear! commiserated the ser geant. Tough luck ...

... Garnet Wolseley and his troops 011 j their return from West Africa. I Coaching from the bank for the Boat Race. John Phelps xcho judged the 1874 Boat Race. ...

... shoot Randle raced forward. He reached the doorway, saw the boy running along the lamplit wharf, saw the gendarme check, saw his hand go up. The gendarme, fired an instant before Randle shoulder-charged him, sending him sprawling, and raced straight on ...

... therefore carried by a majority of 174. The Race That the long continued drought would seriously affect the success of the summer meeting on the Epsom hills and still further curtail the field for the great race of the year beyond the vicissitudes to which ...

... carrying shoulder- slung equipment and everyone, in cluding the door keeper (who was sweetened up occasionally by cigarettes and racing tips) assumed that Charles was of their number. So long as he wasn't seen entering or leaving his hideout he could pretty ...

... locomotives and bygone devices for ensuring safety on the railways. Above the red marble mantel was a vast print of a railway accident, freely coloured by hand. You do keep things as the old man left them, said Mimi. It was Margaret who poured the coffee ...